Hosea 4:9

In 11 translations

BSB

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

KJV

And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings.punish: Heb. visit uponreward: Heb. cause to return

WEB

It will be like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will repay them for their deeds.

ASV

And it shall be, like people, like priest; and I will punish them for their ways, and will requite them their doings.

LSV

And it has been, like people, like priest, || And I have charged on it its ways, || And its habitual doings I return to it.

YLT

And it hath been, like people, like priest, And I have charged on it its ways, And its habitual doings I return to it.

DBY

And it shall be as the people so the priest; and I will visit their ways upon them, and recompense to them their doings;

DRC

And there shall be like people like priest: and I will visit their ways upon them, and I will repay them their devices.

GNV

And there shalbe like people, like Priest: for I wil visite their wayes vpon them, and reward them their deedes.

JPS

And it is like people, like priest; and I will punish him for his ways, and will recompense him his doings.

LXXE

And the priest shall be as the people: and I will avenge on them their ways, and I will recompense to them their counsels.

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WLC

וְהָיָ֥ה כָעָ֖ם כַּכֹּהֵ֑ן וּפָקַדְתִּ֤י עָלָיו֙ דְּרָכָ֔יו וּמַעֲלָלָ֖יו אָשִׁ֥יב לֽוֹ׃

LXX-Br

Καὶ ἔσται καθὼς ὁ λαὸς, οὕτως καὶ ὁ ἱερεύς· καὶ ἐκδικήσω ἐπʼ αὐτὸν τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ διαβούλια αὐτοῦ ἀνταποδώσω αὐτῷ.

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• Jeremiah 5:31The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?
• Isaiah 24:2people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.
• Matthew 15:14Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”
• Hosea 1:4Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
• Jeremiah 23:11–12“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD. “Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I…
• Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their labor.
• Hosea 8:13Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
• Ezekiel 22:26–31Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so…
• Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
• Psalms 109:17–18The cursing that he loved, may it fall on him; the blessing in which he refused to delight, may it be far from him. The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
• Jeremiah 8:10–12Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. They dress the wound of…
• Hosea 9:9They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah; He will remember their guilt; He will punish their sins.
• Zechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He…
• Isaiah 9:14–16So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day. The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies. For those who guide this people mislead…

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